Hubbardston woman's monkey video goes national

The show is filled with bloopers, blunders, epic falls, cute babies and kittens, and the occasional farting dog.

Young and old watch the antics captured on home videos and aired on ABC’s “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Tonight at 7, Lisa A. Durant and her three children will be firmly planted in front of the large flat-screen TV in their living room to watch their video on the show.

“When (Callahan's brother) Aiden and I walked up to the monkey it was initially growling and showing his teeth,” Mrs. Durant said. “It was really kind of vicious. I hadn’t seen a monkey do that and I thought, ‘I should video this,’ and then he stopped and started picking his toes.”

Then, Callahan yelled, ‘Hi, monkey,” she said.

“The monkey really glared at him and then it turned over and showed him his rear end,” she said. “Callahan had this quizzical look like, ‘Hey! What?’ I captured the whole moment.”

She said everyone she showed the video to laughed instantly. “I had to submit it,” she said. “AFV called us as soon as I submitted it and wanted more information.”

She submitted the video a month ago, and the show called last week, she said, to tell her it would air Sunday.

“You have to sign your life away,” she explained. “They have the right to do anything they want with it, including using it in ads for their show. “

Mrs. Durant also had to choose if she wanted the video just to run as a clip on the show or run in the contest for money prizes.

“It is more likely to be used sooner if it is a non-contest video,” she said. “I figured the boys would just enjoy seeing it and it may not have made it to the contest anyway. “She said they also asked her if she posted the video on YouTube or Facebook.

“They don’t want a video that is already out there and saturated,” she said. “I’ll probably post it after the show Sunday for those who missed it.”

She will get $200 for use of the video, she said.

“We’ll probably use it to do something special with the kids,” she said.

Lisa Durant said her son Aiden T. Durant, 10, is really the videographer in the family. He uses his Motorola Zoom tablet to shoot anything and everything, she said.

“He videotapes 24-7,” his mom said. “They are just real life. I delete a lot of them when he is not looking because they are not always the most appropriate. Many of them are with his buddies. We try to encourage him not to make too many home videos because they jump off the furniture for action shots.”

Aiden said two of his favorites are when he caught his dad in the bathroom, he said, and caught him singing “Man or Muppet” on another occasion.

“I like to video people and catch them being funny,” Aiden said.

A self-proclaimed “YouTube freak,” Aiden said he watches AFV all the time.

Callahan said he was shocked the monkey stuck his derriere up toward him, but he’s excited his video will air on TV. The show is filled with bloopers, blunders, epic fallsfails, cute babies and kittens, and the occasional farting dog.

“He gave us a dirty look and then showed me his butt,” he said, laughing. “It’s going to be awesome to be on TV.”

His little sister Katelyn M. Durant, 4, who loves to sing and dance to Taylor Swift songs in her brother’s videos, is pretty pumped about it, too.